Trump 2
lexicons shrink
toward the
point of
vanishing
pennies (both
Zen hands
amputated)
DEI lingo
flipped
like a bad
penny, and
woke becomes
dangerous over-
night, and
the target of coin-sized
overreach is the greedy green end of
plummeting
stock market shares.
Peanut shells
coughed up—
allergies are
prohibited; “Don’t
Say Gay” bloats into a
blacklist of words,
baked blackbirds
squawking in
American pies.
Author of two full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks, Hiromi Yoshida is a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award. She is the Poetry Editor of Flying Island Journal and serves on the board of directors for the Writers Guild at Bloomington, while coordinating the Guild’s Last Sunday Poetry reading series.